There see new reports Brooks could be heading to the Dolphins.
What should we do with Brooks?
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so now it is the dolphins
more chance of uncle Wayne courting douhie he coached him before and only that they were after lateell that he moved on. Dolphins have Sullivan as a 7
no way Bennett will chip in more than 350k of this fabled Brooks 1.1 million so that means we would be paying 800k for brooks to play elsewhere
so now nrl360 are saying 1 3 million for brooks lol
fairytale stuff
Rothfield said in march 1.1 million
now 1 3 million
fact is they have no idea what Brooks is on
in 2018 it was reported 850k
I would think he is on somewhere like 850k to 900k in reality
Brooks will do well elsewhere. But he needs to be elsewhere, Wests Tigers has stunted his growth. Could have been anything but never will be here. Time is running out at 27 and 28 in December. Really should have left at the beginning of the year when he had the chance.
Brooks will do well elsewhere. But he needs to be elsewhere, Wests Tigers has stunted his growth. Could have been anything but never will be here. Time is running out at 27 and 28 in December. Really should have left at the beginning of the year when he had the chance.
He didn't have the chance.
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All these should we get rid of Tamou/Brooks polls are a bit meaningless without knowing who will replace them.
All these should we get rid of Tamou/Brooks polls are a bit meaningless without knowing who will replace them.
Kinda the same with Madge.
We've sacked madge, but until we know who replaces him at have no idea if it was a good decision
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I'm keen on Hastings/AD
But I don't see the benefit of letting Brooks go until he's off contract.
If he's on around $1m we'd be pushing around $500k for him to play elsewhere, valuing him at 500k. For that much, I think it's better to keep him, play him 14 or in reserves and bring him up to cover injury or keep pressure on the spine.
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All these should we get rid of Tamou/Brooks polls are a bit meaningless without knowing who will replace them.
Kinda the same with Madge.
We've sacked madge, but until we know who replaces him at have no idea if it was a good decision
Exactly
I am convinced that in the future there will be PhD dissertations written about the Wests Tigers obsession with turning Luke Brooks into an elite level half back up to the point where it appeared at some points that this was more important than the club actually being successful.
The truth of the matter is that Brooks was a very promising junior who looked as if he would transition into a very good first grade half back but whatever reason never made the step up, apart from a purple patch under Ivan Cleary in 2018. This happens all the time both at the Tigers and at every other NRL club but the difference is that at other clubs they would be transitioned out after a year or two. At the Tigers however he was rewarded with two contract upgrades, turning him into a million dollar player and one of the best paid halves in the comp, landing us in a situation now where the lights are finally coming on for most fans and we are left with a prohibitively expensive contract for next year for a guy who most people agree now isn't capable of playing at 7. The only thin elite about him is his pay packet.
Along the way blame for this has been placed on a multitude of people including Robbie Farah, Benji Marshall, Josh Reynolds, Moses Mbye, Mick Potter, Jason Taylor, Michael Macguire, fans, members, CEOs, Chairmen etc etc. Only the person who makes the tea at Concord seems to have escaped apportioning of blame.
There are many factors involving developing of juniors into NRL quality players and a million reasons why it doesn't happen and now that the majority seems to have realised now that Brooks needs to be moved on I hope the club has learned a valuable lesson from this whole debacle.
I'm keen on Hastings/AD
But I don't see the benefit of letting Brooks go until he's off contract.
If he's on around $1m we'd be pushing around $500k for him to play elsewhere, valuing him at 500k. For that much, I think it's better to keep him, play him 14 or in reserves and bring him up to cover injury or keep pressure on the spine.
I’m not sure you can leave a million dollar half sitting in reserve grade, it becomes a circus. The 500k net you save for the excess half is what you put into strengthening other positions by paying a little more than the next club for the next player on the market you need. Brooks is a 200 game player in his 10th season. It will never work at wests and pressuring the next coach to “fix brooksy” is a distraction we don’t need.
The best football Brooks has ever played was when Tedesco was at WestsTigers they had a really good understanding each other’s gameplay and skill’s.
Tedesco was Brooks go to man on the field and unfortunately for him and the fan’s his just never been able to replicate that partnership again with anyone since Tedesco.
Time to move him on the writings on the wall the guy has been given more opportunities then any player at this club.
Should have left with Moses , Woods and Tedesco in 2017....be in far better place
Being loyal has just had him chastised and kicked from pillar to post .....
